Attorney-General comments on dole debate

The Northern Territory Attorney-General says he would do all he can to change his circumstances if faced with living on the dole.

The Federal Government is moving unemployed single parents onto the dole when their child turns eight.

The dole pays about $35 a day.

The federal Families Minister Jenny Macklin has drawn criticism for saying she could live on that amount of money.

The Territory's Treasurer Robyn Lambley agrees, but Attorney-General John Elferink says it would be hard.

"It's something that I wouldn't relish but what I know I would do is that I would respond to that circumstance if I found myself in that situation by doing all that I possibly could do to change my circumstances," he said.